Sonia Sotomayor spent her first week at Princeton University obsessing over a cricket. She tore her dorm room apart every night looking for the critter. Growing up in New York City, her only notion of crickets was Jiminy from "Pinocchio." The academics and classmates also were new to Sotomayor. As a first-year student, she felt what she's called a "chasm" between herself and her classmates.